New York A 8641: Specifies the settings in which an ultrasound or similar medical imaging device procedure may be offered

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A08641 Summary:

BILL NOA08641 

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SAME ASSAME AS S08007

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SPONSORGlick

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COSPNSRKelles

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MLTSPNSR

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Ren 3517 to be 3518, add 3517, Pub Health L

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Specifies the settings in which an ultrasound or similar medical imaging device procedure may be offered; provides penalties for violations.

Go to top A08641 Actions:

BILL NOA08641 

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05/22/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8641

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 22, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to specifying the
 settings in which an ultrasound or similar medical imaging device
 procedure may be offered

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 3517 of the public health law is renumbered section
 2 3518 and a new section 3517 is added to read as follows:
 3 § 3517. Performance of ultrasounds. 1. An ultrasound, or a similar
 4 medical imaging device or procedure used for a medical, counseling, or
 5 diagnostic service or purpose, shall only be offered in the following
 6 settings:
 7 (a) An organized and licensed clinic that provides direct medical,
 8 surgical, dental, optometric, or podiatric advice, services, or treat-
 9 ment to patients who remain less than twenty-four hours, and that may
 10 also provide diagnostic or therapeutic services to patients in the home
 11 as an incident to care provided at the clinic facility.
 12 (b) An outpatient setting comprised of any facility, clinic, unli-
 13 censed clinic, center, office, or other setting that is not part of a
 14 general acute care facility and where anesthesia, except local anes-
 15 thesia or peripheral nerve blocks, or both, is used in compliance with
 16 the community standard of practice, in doses that, when administered
 17 have the probability of placing a patient at risk for loss of the
 18 patient's life-preserving protective reflexes.
 19 (c) A licensed health facility that is organized, maintained, and
 20 operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention, and treatment of human
 21 illness, physical, or mental, including convalescence and rehabilitation
 22 and including care during and after pregnancy, or for any one or more of
 23 these purposes, for one or more persons, to which the persons are admit-
 24 ted for a twenty-four-hour stay or longer, including a hospital, acute

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13014-01-5

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 1 psychiatric hospital, skilled nursing facility, nursing home, intermedi-
 2 ate care facility, congregate living health facility, hospice facility
 3 and a correctional treatment center operated by the department of
 4 corrections and community supervision or a county, city, or city and
 5 county law enforcement agency.
 6 (d) A practice of a licensed physician or surgeon, a medical group
 7 practice, including a professional medical corporation organized under
 8 and governed by article forty-four of this chapter, another form of
 9 corporation controlled by physicians and surgeons, a medical partner-
 10 ship, a medical foundation exempt from licensure, or another lawfully
 11 organized group of physicians and surgeons that provides health care
 12 services.
 13 (e) A practice of a licensed chiropractor, as defined in article one
 14 hundred thirty-two of the education law, or a lawfully organized group
 15 of licensed chiropractors that provides health care services.
 16 (f) A practice of a licensed physical therapist, as defined in article
 17 one hundred thirty-six of the education law, or a lawfully organized
 18 group of licensed physical therapists that provides health care
 19 services.
 20 (g) A facility affiliated with the settings described in paragraphs
 21 (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) of this subdivision.
 22 (h) An exempt entity as described in section thirty-five hundred
 23 fifteen of this title.